"'Come, come,' said Tom's father, 'at your time of life, / There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake— / It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.' / 'Why, so it is father—whose wife shall I take?'"
— Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "A Joke Versified," Fables for the Holy Alliance
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| Illustration and title page of The Country Wife by William Wycherley. |
